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As Sony made the decision Wednesday to scrap the Dec. 25 release of “The Interview,” casual observers found themselves asking some logical how-could-this-happen questions. A broad and benign Seth Rogen comedy causes an international incident that threatens to bring down one of the world's biggest entertainment conglomerates, and throws Hollywood into crisis besides? It's a turn of events you'd almost expect in....a Seth Rogen comedy. But those who’ve been following the studio and its films had a slightly different reaction: Things like this seem to happen a little more often to Sony. This is not the first time the studio has been caught in a political...

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As Sony made the decision Wednesday to scrap the Dec. 25 release of “The Interview,” casual observers found themselves asking some logical how-could-this-happen questions. A broad and benign Seth Rogen comedy causes an international incident that...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel accepted free transportation, sports tickets and a stay as a house guest from friends and political supporters last year, but the number of gift givers was fewer than in years past.
The mayor is required to disclose gifts valued at...

Films aren't so much born as worried into existence, and with some films the worrying — the concern that the audience won't get it, or get out for it, or make the required time commitment — never stops.
Take, for example, "The Disappearance of...

For a second year running, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler hosted NBC’s Golden Globes telecast in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, and Fey, droll as ever, laid out the brutal essence of their return engagement: “This is Hollywood,” she said, “and if something...

Nelson Mandela, who fought for decades to end racial oppression in South Africa, has died just weeks before the wide release of a movie telling the story of his life.
The film, titled "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," chronicles its subject's...

Hosting the 70th Golden Globes Sunday in Beverly Hills, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler proved it was possible to skewer their Hollywood colleagues without entirely alienating the crowd, as distinct from previous host Ricky Gervais.
Some 20 years after Fey...

Any rapper can star in a movie, but starring, directing, co-writing and co-scoring a studio film? Even for a man who calls directors Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth friends, that’s almost unheard of within the hip-hop world. And yet, it’s no surprise RZA...

The "Lord of the Rings" sequel dominated in its debut weekend, taking in $61.5 million--30 percent better than its predecessor did last year, according to studio estimates Sunday.
"The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" has grossed...

A sexual assault complaint has been filed against film executive Harvey Weinstein, a New York City Police Department spokesman said Monday.
The spokesman said that the allegation was being investigated and that Weinstein had been questioned. Manhattan...

Harvey Weinstein has a plan to deal with the world’s anti-Semites: “Kick them in the ass.”
That’s what the movie mogul told a packed audience at the Beverly Hilton Hotel after he accepted the Humanitarian Award at the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National...

If Ryan Reynolds hadn't gone backpacking in Europe in the late 1990s, he might have never ended up co-starring with Helen Mirren in the film "Woman in Gold." The 38-year-old actor says he visited Vienna's Belvedere Palace and viewed Gustav...

Read enough First Amendment cases and you become familiar with the concept of a "chilling effect," which refers to how placing restrictions on speech can lead to self-censorship. In the wake of Sony's trouble-plagued release of "The...

Spooky midcentury paintings of big-eyed children and the equally twisted tale of the artist behind them are at the center of Tim Burton's new film, "Big Eyes." The true yet surreal story of painter Margaret Keane also resonates throughout the...

"THE MOST courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." -- Coco Chanel.
THE item I wrote the other day about Madonna -- her upcoming album, the art promoting it, the controversy about that art -- was picked up, perhaps not...

The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. didn't throw us many curveballs last year with its Golden Globe nominations, which sort of defeats the purpose of the whole exercise, doesn't it? If we wanted a group to rubber stamp the awards-season consensus, we'd look...

A topsy-turvy awards day began with “Boyhood” and matured into “Birdman,” as the two dramas traded prizes at a pair of East Coast institutions.The Richard Linklater film kicked off the post-Thanksgiving awards burst by taking top honors of best film and...

— Hanging on the wall of IFC Films' President Jonathan Sehring's office is a huge banner showing a tableau at a county fair. The cloth creation is a tribute to the executive's childhood in small-town Ohio, where such gatherings were common.
Above its...

Yes, we know: Nobody sings Dylan like Dylan, but in his new movie, "St. Vincent," Bill Murray performs a pretty wonderful version of "Shelter From the Storm" over the closing credits.
You can watch a version of Murray's work with this...